I upgraded my laptop to 98.08 yesterday and after a long process of fiddling with skins and plugins etc. I finally got it up and running.

After playing with it for a good few hours I have to say that I really like a lot of the new features and I definately want to take advantage of them but I noticed a major difference in performance in 98.08 that makes it unusable for me.

My laptop is a 1.6ghz Turion 64 with 1mb ram and the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics chipset. In 96.08, I use VMR7 and the Nvidia Purevideo decoder and the CPU usage on average is around 30% when watching LiveTV. In 98.08 the CPU usage is double, and goes up to 90%+ when I use VMR9. In all of the VMR modes it drops frames like crazy.

I managed to get it to work in Overlay mode, but the CPU consumption is still much higher than before. Has anyone else noticed this? I've gone back to 96.08 in the meantime.

Regards
Dave

OK - Playing with GBPVR 98.8 in Client mode it all looks promising! I can see the guide, I can see recordings etc. I just can't play!

I have played with graph edit and found that by specifying the mainconcept video and audio decoders AND most importantly specifying "Mainconcept MPEG Splitter" it plays perfectly.

But the default graph always seems to use MPEG-2 Demultiplexer and the best I get is one frame of video with audio playing normally.

Is there a way to build a grf file and then force GBPVR to use it (This seems like a quick fix to me rather than solving the Codec hell). My lounge pc is fine as I've ONLY installed whats absolutely necessary and this pc runs like a dream. But it would be nice to be able to play stuff to my office pc while I work and this pc has lots of video editing software etc so it has many codecs installed.

I've tried de-registering the Intervideo Codecs and the Nero ones and it still won't play with Mainconcept selected - I've tried de-registering Mainconcept and selecting Intervideo and still no go.

Whats the best method of attack here (assuming I'm dreaming being able to specify a .grf file for GBPVR to use).

Not sure how long this has been happening, but just noticed programme listings for More4, UKTV History and Film4 are blank. When I force an EPG update from the tray it eventually gives an exception but not very helpful and nothing in the event logs. Which of the GBPVR logs should I be looking in for this? I'm using v98.8 and Birtles XMLTV Radio Times. Looking at the data file, the 3 channels missing are the last 3 in the list and there are listings for them, but I can't see any corrupt looking entries around that point. One thing I haven't tried yet is deleting that file and reloading, so I'll try that, but any other suggestions?

Hey y'all!!

Few weeks ago I decided to learn about the HTPC thing and media server options available out there. After reading about TV tuners, capture cards, PVR's, MythTV...et al. I realized the more I read about it the more confused I am.

I will explain what my present needs are and what I am trying to accomplish in the future. I know I can count on your help to explain how I can get this done or direct me to where I can find that valuable info.

Current Needs: I have Digital Cable thru Cox. I work nights, so I TAPE (yes, VCR:o ) the shows to watch them later. I also realized that my favorite shows are from network channels. What I want to do is get a Tuner card (HDTV) so I can record those shows on my Desktop computer. It's very important for me that the recorded shows don't have commercials in them anymore when I am ready to watch them after work. I am using a 17" LCD but will be upgrading soon to a 32" any suggestion about that are appreciated too.

Future Needs: I am planning on buying a house (someday ) I would like to have a satellite dish to get some foreign FTA (Free to Air) channels in addition to the OTA (Over the Air) channels. What type of card/software will be needed then and is the one suggested for current needs will still work ok?
In addition to getting HDTV and Satellite channels I will need to have access to all my media (music files, recorded TV shows and live TV...) from three different computers/TVs. I know it's possible, I just don't know how complicated it is yet :eek:

Thank you so much in advance, Please don't use a lot of three letter acronyms as I am new to all this. Or if you do, spell it out for me as well.


Computer Specs:
Dell 4600 P4 3GHz HT 512MB
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128MB
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

I was just wondering how to get the name episode plugin working. I have tried almost every other HTPC frontend out there and after meedio died I think that GB PVR offers me everything I need, with the exception of naming episodes on the actual file. Does anyone know if this is something that will be incorporated in the actual program in the future? Thanks for any help.

What is the average amount of memory that's chewed up by the GBPVR.EXE process? Mine is about 58MB and thats with no plugins. I just installed the plain jane package and it seems to run slow and that's when realized that if was chewingup RAM. Avg. with plain jane was about 140MB.

Hello,
First, I'd like to extend my great appreciation for this app and all of the support here on the forum. I have been using it for about a year and this is the first problem (of many I've run into) that I can not resolve by searching the forums. I actually think I hit a maximum search limit on Google trying to find something to explain this problem, haha. Alos, I'd like to make a special note of thanks to sub and all the testers for the atsc-scan5 update--worked like a gem--good job! I'd also like to pre-apologize for the long post--just want to give as much info as I can.

Here it is:
Until about a week ago, I was close to having everything working well (after atsc-scan5.zip) and about to permanently shut-down my VNC server and leave the box as an remote control only "appliance". . . then audio from my ATSC recordings stopped working. I had recently changed the BDA Mux to the ATI Mux, hoping ot be abel to stream with VLC from EnhancedWebAdmin. However, I honestly don't remember touching the PC the day it stopped working, and it worked during the ATI Mux stage, so I'm not sure what, if anything, changed. I could still hear audio from the HD recordings if played in WMP 10. I tried every software setting/combination I could mess with from Config.exe, but no luck.

Just a side note: I did notice one strange thing at this point, if I opened lastgraph.grf and clicked Play, video would play, but no sound. I tried some things in there and determined that if I disabled the "Set Clock" on the AC97 Audio Renderer and clicked play, sound would work.

I figured all this had to do with too many codecs/junk software being loaded (I had to do a lot of messing around to try to playback HD smoothly on a GeForce 6200, but finally gave up and got the 6800XT.) I wanted to expand my storage, so I figured now was a good time to reinstall from scratch with a new disk. During the upgrade, turns out my motherboard went bad, one memory bank and SATA wouldn't work, so got a new motherboard, too.

Ok, to make a LONG LONG story shorter, I finished the reinstall (now with XP SP 2), updated drivers, 0.98.8, atsc-scan5.zip, etc. PC itself seems to be running much smoother.

• GBPVR still won't play audio for HD recordings or LiveTV (HD).
  
• Will play sound for SD recordings (don't have PVR-150 source configured yet to test LiveTV-SD).
  
• PureVideo Icon does not come up in task bar when playing recordings from GBPVR, but does when playing from WMP10.
  
• Windows Media Player 10 will play audio for HD files.
  
• lastgraph.grf plays fine the first time.
  
• Checked for the LastVolume problem.
  
• Set the AddGraphToRTO = 1 regedit trick to connect to graph, Graphedit too buggy to open audio renderer properties once connected.
  
• Updated the quartz.dll to version 6.5.1.902, just in case, no luck, either with audio playback or opening Audio Renderer properties in Graphedit.
  
• Tried VMR9 instead of VMR9Custom (what I normally use to display SD without garbage on sides), no luck.
  

would like some advice wth the music plugins for gbpvr am tryng to put all my musc together but the size of my colection keeps craching the program i only get to about 6700 albums or aprox 28000 songs and it dose not seem to be able to handle any more total collection is about 23000 albums or about 200,000+ songs total 640 gig aproxx any advice would be apreciated have tryed most plugins and it seems to be a problem with them all thay dont seem to be able to handle the shere size of collection.

this has happened twice now, and it's definitely not a fluke.

say i'm watching something in timeshift mode, which i go to by selecting Live TV from the main menu. (if it matters, i have live preview disabled because it just flat doesn't work on my rig for whatever reason) i have to leave the house but i'd like to record the rest of the show, so i hit record (red circle on gray button - haup45), choose "record to end of program" or whatever the default is, then hit ok. it saves from whenever i switched to that channel like it should... but it never stops. ie: filename is "Whats With That House_3_20061002_22002230.mpg" which tells me that it knows that on oct 2 2006 from 2200 to 2230, what's with that house is on. so it should stop recording at 2230 or 2231 (if it uses my default of 1 minute post padding). thing is... i can come back at 2255 and it's STILL RECORDING, and i can verify this both by viewing the gbpvr recording status, and by refreshing the windows explorer view of the recordings directory - i can sit there and watch the file size grow every time i hit f5 in explorer.

it doesn't stop recording till i restart the recording service. i attached a couple screenshots.

for the curious, the 3rd tray icon in bug2.jpg is for APC PowerChute - i just got a UPS for my htpc, and installed its auto-shutdown software. that's basically the only other thing running on this machine. only plugins i have are weather and bleepbloop.

edit: i just attached my logs.

After upgrading to the new version, I no longer get a picture only sound. I can get a picture with win2000 but not GBPVR. I'm using a PVR-150.